Quitting Maple Story is hard once you're officially addicted to that game. Many players tried it once, and it was NOT easy getting rid of that addiction.

Steps

1

Be able to tell if you are addicted or not. First thing's first. Can you tell that you're addicted? Here are four questions to determine if you are or are not addicted. (It may or may not be a strong addiction)

When you see your computer (closed or opened), do you feel an urge to go to MapleStory?

Does MapleStory distract you from anything? (Learning, classes, etc.)

Do you often go to Maple only? Maybe you talk (or desire to talk) to your friends about maple almost 24/7?

Is MapleStory affecting your grades? Look at your report card. If you're getting D- to C on any grade, this may be a good idea to quit

2

After you've answered these questions, think... Do you want your life to be ruined because of MapleStory? How so? There can be people that have an uncontrollable lust to play everyday. People always competing to be the top. That could ruin your life for good. You could be too distracted to the desire to play. Some people could have easily failed their classes because of that. (Happened to me) So think. Don't ruin your life. You get no second chance.

3

Now you have to admit you have this problem. After admitting, you should set goals. You don't have to quit to get over your addiction. Maybe play lesser a week. For example on setting a goal: I will play three times a week in # hours.

4

After setting up that goal. Try following it. It might be hard at first but you'll get the hang with it. Try using other hobbies to occupy yourself. Don't feel discouraged if you didn't do exactly what you had intended. If you stopped a bit you've made progress!

5

People's opinions: They might think "it's too hard to quit" or "I can't quit." Replace those negative terms with positive terms. The more people think negatively the more they really will fail. Don't forget to try. Making some-what improvement is still improvements too!

6

Ask people to help you. Your friends are there. They should be able to help occupy you like mentioned before.

7

Reside to Private Servers, even though they might be looked down upon. They will basically allow you to do a years work of levelling a character up in a day or less. After about a week, maybe two weeks tops, you'd be able to play almost every single character on MapleStory. Private Servers has a thing called Rebirth, basically if you reach level 200, you'll get "re-birthed" to level 0 with everything, except for your level.. So yeah.

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Tips

Put life goals to your top priority! Don't forget about educational purposes too!

Another good way to quit is to sell your account. You can get IRL money for the hard work you spent on your character.

Put on the attitude! If you think Maple is getting boring, then you might want to stop playing a bit more.

Nexon may hold events for players who quit (ex. free NX items). Resist the urge to come back after you quit.

For some people, quitting Maple cold works better to break an addiction than playing minimally. If you would prefer this to less playing per day, than try to not play Maple for a week.

If you're planning to switch to another game, advertise in the Free Market that you're trading mesos for that game's currency (ex. RuneScape GP). This can give you a head start in another game.

If you're still having trouble quitting, here are some things to help you quit:

Maplestory is one of the most hacked games, like, ever. One of these days, the hackers will destroy it, and all your hard work will be gone.

Later, the guilt about how much you put into the stupid cash shop eats you away, because you see that new iPod Touch, and realize you could have gotten that instead of the useless clothes and game items.

Tell yourself, instead of spending 40 dollars on NX for clothes, or gachapon tickets why not use the money to get the orange box or Css

Start with small goals. You can gradually start to build to the steps to be able to achieve more.

Watch other people kill bosses like Zakum or Cygnus on YouTube. You will feel accomplished cause you've already seen, basically, the end.

No need to quit Maple completely to be truly not addicted any more. Playing lesser is a good benefit..

Ask a friend or sibling to train your character for you from time to time if you're scared of falling behind on events, levels, etc.

Warnings

Maplestory can be worse than drugs.

There are also risks for joining private servers, you'll never know when the developer stops running the client.